The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BATE which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2014.
Hold back, as breath crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BATE | 100 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hold back, as breath
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stop
- stifle
- postpone
- table
- reserve
- refrain
- defer
- remit
- shelve
- tables
- pause
- keep
Crossword Answer definitions
BATE verb- To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away.
- To leave out, except, bar.
- To waste away.
- To deprive of.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- Strife; contention.
- To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
- An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
- A vat which contains this liquid.
- To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- To hit; strike
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To rob.
- To masturbate.
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